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Definition chime
Etymology 1
From Middle English chime, chim, chimbe, chymbe, a shortening of chimbelle (misinterpreted as chymme-belle, chimbe-belle), from Old English ?imbala, ?imbal (“cymbal”), from Latin cymbalum.
Noun
chime (plural chimes)
- (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
Verb
chime (third-person singular simple present chimes, present participle chiming, simple past and past participle chimed)
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
- (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
- To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
Etymology 2
Noun
chime (plural chimes)
- Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)
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